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Pacces on Governance: Activation of Factor G in the Enterprise System
No full textThis work aims: a) to fill a theoretical gap in the existing literature; b) to show, through an organisational lens, how some of Pacces' ideas were not only exceptional for his time but still relevant today - confirming his extraordinary vision - and harbinger of important implications for the managerial world; c) to stimulate intellectual debate and the proliferation of research.
The methodology consists of 2 techniques: 1) Critical analysis of the overall literature attributable to the Author; 2) Use over a decade (2009-2019) of qualitative techniques: 50 semi-structured interviews with Senior/Middle Management, participant observation to gather empirical evidence from an Italian company, homogeneous (in terms of size, geographical context, type of industrial sector) to the one studied by F.M. Pacces.
The originality lies in the organisational focus, never before used in the Professor's study, and in the lengthy managerial applicability test.
With reference to the implications, the tools, not only conceptual, indicated by Pacces to improve organisational practices could be used by managers with a view to continuous improvement.
The uniqueness of the reality observed (of a singular industrial sector, albeit similar to the one studied by the author) limits, however, the possibility of making generalisations, constituting the spur for future research in other industrial sector
Beyond the Nutritional Quality of Made in Italy Space Food: Motivational and Performance Implications on Astronautic Teams
No full textThis study explores the influence of Italian-made space food on the well-being, motivation and performance of astronauts during some recent missions. The objective is to examine the relationship between the consumption of high-quality Italian-made food and the organisational behaviour of space teams. While previous organisational literature has established connections between perceived well-being, motivation and high performance in various work contexts, there is a paucity of research specifically addressing these factors in the context of space missions and the peculiar impact of Italian cuisine. This research aims to expand the theoretical understanding of the organisational dynamics of space teams and to test, on an empirical level, the hypothesis that consuming high-quality Italian food alleviates perceived sensory hunger in space, thereby improving the psychological well-being, motivation and high work performance of astronauts. A combination of questionnaires and in-depth interviews was conducted with the astronauts, as well as with innovation managers from a number of Italian Space Food companies. The results were then analysed using a set of selected theoretical organisational and qualitative constructs. Given the distinctive nature of the research, the findings, both theoretical and empirical, offer potential for intriguing generalisations and comparisons, thereby stimulating both scientific discourse and the work of experts from the various domains involved, including aerospace, food, organisational studies, and quality managemen
La collaborazione pubblico-privata nell’ambito della Cybersecurity europea. Dal piano organizzativo a quello della normazione tecnica
No full textDiversi documenti politici, già a partire dalla strategia dell’Unione europea per la cybersicurezza del 2013, fanno riferimento alla collaborazione tra pubblico e soggetti privati operanti in diversi settori, senza tuttavia precisare come debba realizzarsi questa cooperazione nella pratica. Quel che è certo è che la minaccia cyber è globale, imponente, multiforme e continuamente cangiante: per affrontarla i governi hanno bisogno delle competenze tecnologiche possedute dalle imprese, contraddistinte dalla velocità dei processi decisionali, dall'efficienza e agilità loro connaturata. Dal canto loro, le imprese non potrebbero fare a meno dell’autorità governativa e/o sovra-nazionale dei vari soggetti coinvolti per dirimere aspetti della security tradizionalmente appannaggio degli Stati.
L'intervento, dal taglio interdisciplinare e che si situa a cavallo tra le scienze organizzative aziendali e il diritto pubblico, intende fornire una panoramica della collaborazione pubblico-privata in ambito cyber, concentrandosi su due profili: il partenariato pubblico-privato, considerato sia a livello organizzativo, sia giuridico; la co-regolazione nella normazione e certificazione tecnica di cyberiscurezza, alla luce del recente quadro europeo inerente.
Il tema è particolarmente complesso in quanto non investe solo profili pratici, ma anche giuridici ed economici. Con questa ricerca, limitata al caso europeo, intendiamo riflettere su una struttura di governance chiara, che delinei i ruoli e le responsabilità di ciascuna parte interessata nei rapporti sopra menzionati.
Lo studio, in particolare, analizza il ruolo dei privati, da un lato come soggetti destinatari degli obblighi di cyberiscurezza di diritto derivato, poi tradotti a livello nazionale; dall’altro come attori che promuovono e partecipano alla elaborazione delle norme e certificazioni tecniche, le quali rappresentano, poi, il parametro di riferimento degli obblighi di cui sopra.
Se in un caso i privati sono quindi attori passivi, soggetti al potere pubblico, nell’altro vantano invece una posizione di rilievo. L’occasione sarà pertanto quella di esplorare come i poteri pubblici, ma sopratutto le rappresentanze sociali, prendono parte ai processi di formazione delle norme tecniche nel contesto europeo
Workshop "Storia del lavoro: uno sguardo di lungo periodo" Special Issue 'Economia & lavoro', Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Tavola Rotonda: Professori Andrea Caracausi, Luca Mocarelli, Mauro Gatti, Alessandro Donadio, Francesca Castaldo e Giulia Mancini
No full textI mercati instabili attuali privilegiano imprese duttili, iperveloci, performanti e resilienti. Chi dovrebbe essere al timone di organizzazioni siffatte? Per affrontare le turbolenze ambientali, sono necessarie capacità dinamiche e processi decisionali molto più veloci rispetto al passato. Decisioni tempestive, oltre che efficaci, sono oggi sempre più possibili grazie all'aiuto delle tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale, foriere di continui progressi nell'universo manageriale. Nell'intervento si sostiene che gli strumenti intelligenti costituiscano validi ausili per i Top Manager della C-Suite ,ma non possano ancora sostituire alcune capacità e virtù prettamente umane e, quindi, surrogare la cosiddetta "arte del comando
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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